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beat democrat Jennings Bryan twice
boss hanna's man
assassinated by a socialist
dingley tarriff (highest in history)
gold standard -
US gets philippines, Puerto Rico, guam
Cuba was independence US PROTESTED
EFFECTS
need for Panama canal, better US military, Philipino insurrection
US overseas Empire, 1898 US ANNEXED HAWAII -
• Square deal proposal
• Corollary to Monroe doctrine
• Panama canal right acquired (1904)
• Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905)
• Won Nobel Peace Prize (1906)
• Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
• San Francisco Earthquake (1906)
• Panic of 1907 -
construction of irrigation works
wanted people to settle in west converting arid federal land into agriculturally productive land. -
• Roosevelt policy to restore order in Latin American countries
• Panama canal the treaty of Hay-Bunau gave US the right to build the canal
• Roosevelt help solve many disputes between south American countries and European to maintain peace and US interest from being monopolized
• http://www.sparknotes.com/biography/troosevelt/section9.rhtml -
prohibited railroads from obtainning commodities
control interstate commerce
create rates on railroads -
$$$ trust had a greater power over US banking & $$$ suply than the goverment
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• Advocate full social, pol, & eco equality for all blacks
• Co founded NAACP 1909 with white people
• 1st black to get a Harvard PhD
• Opposed Booker T conservative approach
• Niagara movement ask for black to be treat as men -
• Won election of 1912 against the progressive party member Theodore Roosevelt
• Lusitania sunk
• US enters war
• Treaty of Versailles and the league of nations
• 18 & 19 amendment -
• Result from investigation of money trust/ panic of 1907
• Serve as the national central bank
• US government controls $$$ supply, interest rates
• Most banks joined by 1929 -
to protect US ecomomy interest including Venezuela intervention
guaranteed loans to pay money own to foreinght countries
designed to help Latin America
durind william taft presidency -
lowers tariffs
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US controls city after mexican officials seized US sailors & refuse to apologize
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outlawed many practices used to build monopolies
exempted unions from Sherman anti trust act -
investigate corporations violations antitrust laws
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led by Gen Pershing to chase Pancho Villa
troops were sent
to Nicaragua, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Virgin Islands -
germans promise to return lost lands to Mexico if join the war against US
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• Fear of communisms and immigrants
• Strikes happened often and many innocent were put in jail
• The hysteria got worse after world war 1
• American civil liberties was created
• Mitchell Palmer he needed to protect America from communist people
• http://www.slideshare.net/mrlocke/red-scare-palmer-raids -
massive violent strike
led by Union leader Samuel Gompers
broken by national guards
contributed to the red scare
a communist helps lead a strike -
US senate led by Henry Cabot refuse to join
Wilson took fight to join the league of nations
had a stroke and his wife ran things until end of his term -
found American Birth Control League
Family planning & Birth control -
• Tuskegee institute vocational training schools
• Promote education, political and economic development for all blacks
• Atlanta compromise ask for whites to allow blacks a vocational skills & earn living (1905)
